A data mining approach for understanding topographic control on climate-induced inter-annual vegetation variability over the United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  White, Amanda B ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Tcheng, David ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Inter annual variability; NDVI; Topography; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; NDVI; TOPOGRAPHY;

DATA MINING;

NDVI; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644497230     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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